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Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

zuben el genub said:
I've got :The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" for a ringtone - it's one of the few mp3s I use. I don't have it on loud, but it is loud.

I mostly use MID. One whole song is less than a couple of K, and you didn't have to cut them on the old phones. MIDs are not that loud, so the phone volume is set to them.
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I typically use songs in my music collection as ringtones, such as this:
 
Here's a surprise to no one who has seen my posts in the song association thread, I use a snippet of Gary Numan's 'Complex' for my regular ringtone, 'Are Friends Electric' for Google Voice numbers and 'We Are Glass' for the kid's ringtone. The only other song I use for a notification is the beginning of The Beatles 'Revolution' for calendar alarms (everything else is on vibrate, always).
 
I went looking for ringtones that symbolized friends.There were more in MID.

Businesses have another, and unknown and unwanted use "cocaine" - also a mid.
I might just have to cut the chorus from the Rolling Stones "Sweet Virginia" for those.

I got used to looking for instrumental versions of a lot of songs. You can't use a vocal in a skating competition.
 
Personally, the ring tone on my Nexus 6 is a stock ring tone that simply sounds like a ringer.

On my previous HTC phones, I couldn't stand the stock ring tones, so I downloaded an app called Office Ring tones, and used an 'Office Desk Phone' type of ring tone.

Personally I cannot stand having music or sounds be my ring tone...I'm at the just simple, in that I just want my phone to sound like a phone.
 
Not my thing but I liked them both. I am a boring guy too. I use the traditional ring tone. I have tried a few different ones through the years but fall back to my boring ring tone. I work in a noisy environment and the traditional ring tone seems to climb over all of the ambient noise where others fall short of the mark.
 
Gmash said:
My ringtone is the Halloween movie theme. Sometimes I change it up with The Exorcist.

Check out this ringtone from @Zedge http://zedge.net/r858659?src=a&v=4.10.2 #ZEDGE #ringtone

Check out this ringtone from @Zedge http://zedge.net/r1056786?src=a&v=4.10.2 #ZEDGE #ringtone
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Thanks for posting that...those are Totally Awesome! And I am really surprised that the recordings are in stereo...they really sounded good long my Nexus 6.

I don't think that I will use them as ring tones, but I might use the as alarm tones or meeting reminders.

olbriar said:
Not my thing but I liked them both. I am a boring guy too. I use the traditional ring tone. I have tried a few different ones through the years but fall back to my boring ring tone. I work in a noisy environment and the traditional ring tone seems to climb over all of the ambient noise where others fall short of the mark.
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I completely agree with you
 
While this is a minor rant...it is still a rant...

I am really starting to get irritated with the phrase that the younger generation is using today...

"What Ev"...for "What Ever"

"For Reals" for "For Real"

Both of those really seem to irritate me the most.

Partially, because it was my generation, in the 90's, that brought the phrases into common use, and the younger generation seems determined to corrupt then.

Also, I am getting really annoyed at the younger generation using Texting Shorthand in regular soeach...

"I like totally LOL'ed"

"Well I told him IMHO that's not something I'd ask"

"AFAIK that is the best way to get there"

I mean really...is it really that difficult to simply speak the entire phrase?
At the rate that most people speak, it shouldn't take too much extra time or effort to speak the entire phrase.
 
Every generation has its own catchphrases and slang... partly to define themselves against their parents, also to distinguish themselves from other groups. The English language is a very elastic, dynamic communications paradigm. It's always changing, evolving... that's what makes it so fun to use, write with, play with (oh, the so many puns and innuendo!).

The new slang annoys us because we are old and becoming inflexible. We want to correct every misuse of a word, the verbification of common nouns (I'm gonna science this shit up!), the contracting of words and entire phrases. But it's okay. It's cool, even.

What evs, yo? I finna go an 'lax; enjoy the show.
 
I'll not rant about it but... with the changes the teen verbiage takes through the years leaves an old man almost afraid to speak. The fear of using a word that now has a completely different meaning than it had years ago leaves me in embarrassment more often than I care to admit. Just one example of many: As a child, I wore thongs on my feet. :eek:
 
I sometimes think it's not 'cool' to be grammatically correct on social media. I'm sure they are deliberately morphing the language, and it's not spelling mistakes. At least, I hope so :)
 
olbriar said:
I'll not rant about it but... with the changes the teen verbiage takes through the years leaves an old man almost afraid to speak. The fear of using a word that now has a completely different meaning than it had years ago leaves me in embarrassment more often than I care to admit. Just one example of many: As a child, I wore thongs on my feet. :eek:
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Completely agree!

I too have gotten in trouble for saying things, that were innocent when I was young, but now have a salacious or derogatory meaning now.
 
More animals! FFS, I have nine people crammed into a house designed to accommodate a family of four. It is stuffed with fourteen years worth of accumulated clothing, toys, appliances and other detritus.

There are four dogs in the back yard, and a ten gallon tank with one fish.

Now, somewhere, there's going to be a forty gallon tank with two not-very-cheap lizards in it.

No one consulted me. My opinion doesn't really come into play in these matters... I just provide the money.
 
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